MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump held competing rallies on the similar Friday night time, only a few miles aside in battleground Wisconsin’s largest metropolis.
With simply 4 days till Election Day, the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees made their ultimate stops in Wisconsin, the place practically all the newest public opinion polls point out a margin-of-error race between the 2 candidates.
“We got four days to get this thing done. Four days. No one can sit on the sidelines,” the vp emphasised to her supporters. “For you who have not yet voted, no judgment, but please get to it when you can.”
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to talk throughout a marketing campaign rally on the Wisconsin State Truthful Expo in West Allis, Wis., Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin)
The Harris marketing campaign mentioned that over 12,000 packed into the Wisconsin State Truthful Park Exposition Middle, in West Allis, simply yards exterior the Milwaukee metropolis limits.
Trump, holding courtroom at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Discussion board – the identical enviornment the place he accepted his celebration’s presidential nomination in the course of the Republican Nationwide Conference in July – instructed his supporters “I want your damn vote.”
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Talking forward of Harris at her rally was fashionable rapper and songwriter Cardi B, who instructed the gang she hadn’t deliberate on voting within the presidential election till Harris changed President Biden in July atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket.
“I wasn’t going to vote this year. … But Kamala Harris joining the race, she changed my mind completely,” the entertainer mentioned.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign rally Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Picture/Morry Gash) (AP Picture/Morry Gash)
The rallies had been Harris and Trump’s ultimate appearances in Wisconsin forward of Election Day – and it was the second time this week that the key celebration nominees held rallies on the identical day in Wisconsin.
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The Democratic and Republican Events’ vice presidential nominees — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, respectively — have additionally each crisscrossed Wisconsin, and main surrogates — together with former Presidents Obama and Clinton for Harris — have parachuted into the Badger State. Obama returns on Sunday.
Each campaigns and their aligned committees and tremendous PACs have additionally flooded Wisconsin airwaves with TV adverts within the closing stretch main as much as Election Day subsequent week.
Wisconsin, together with Michigan and Pennsylvania, are the three Rust Belt states that make up the Democrats’ so-called “blue wall.”
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Democrats reliably received all three states for a quarter-century earlier than Trump narrowly captured them within the 2016 election over Democratic Occasion nominee Hillary Clinton to win the White Home.
4 years later, in 2020, President Biden swept all three states by razor-thin margins to place them again within the Democrats’ column and defeat Trump. In Wisconsin, Biden carried the state by simply over 20,000 votes out of greater than 3.2 million solid.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based mostly in New Hampshire.
